1. O delight of my eyes, why am I so patient without you?
How can I be calm when my heart is aflame?

2. How can I be tranquil when today my eyes have become sleepless,
Naming you while tears from my eyes pour down?

3. So, O my eyes, be generous with your tears, perhaps
You may relieve some of the pain hiding in my heart.

4. And help the grieving soul, perhaps you
Can extinguish the blaze of a heart about to shatter.

5. O ember of sorrow, why don’t you leave my liver
One day without wounds that have passed and healed?

6. For nine long years you were raised with me, then came
One whom neither old age nor youth could prevent.

7. How brief was that life! And what sorrow I feel
Like a blossom scattering at dawn.

8. Oh, how my soul yearns for days now gone hastily
Like a dream that passed, leaving no trace behind.

9. Woe to me from the lengthy night I've stayed awake
As if it had no dawn or daylight.

10. Once I feared my tears would harm my sight,
But today neither tear nor sight matter to me.

11. So I will weep for you for as long as there is
A starry belt circling the heavens.